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Re: Virus rejects on bug-gcc and help-gcc
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 09:10:49 -0700
- Subject: Re: Virus rejects on bug-gcc and help-gcc
- References: <10308201202.AA20522@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 08:02:05AM -0400, Richard Kenner wrote:
> I am getting hundreds of these per day. Is there any way to stop them or
> have those lists gotten useless to subscribe to?
I'm getting huge numbers of these too. What's going on is that someone
who uses a Microsoft OS to read mail has gcc@gcc.gnu.org in his address
book, and is infected, so his/her system is spewing out massive mails
everywhere with forged headers claiming to be from gcc@gcc.gnu.org.
The same has happened to me: someone or more than one someone is spewing
out virus mails that claim to be from me.
The virus bounce messages are from clueless system administrators. If
anyone reading this is a clueless system administrator, please turn off
any virus reject messages you are generating, because they are going
to the wrong parties in massive numbers and are being generated in such
volume as to rival the traffic caused by the virus itself.